Hi everyone I hope you're all well so in the age of female grievance much is made of the notion
of online misogyny that is the harassment and abuse of women online presumably by
men there's always this or this or that campaign or this or that feminist pledging themselves to
ending mean comments on the internet against women now as a woman on the internet i've
certainly copped my fair share of online misogyny however rather than get down in the dumps about it
i actually get sort of irritated whenever people even mention the topic not because i'm just so
terribly traumatized but because generally the people who hurl online gendered abuse at me
seem to not only be mostly women but women who call themselves feminists and claim to be
anti-online misogyny it's this real disconnect with conservative women and feminists you are
only protected by the feminist sisterhood from sexist misogynistic commentary if you adhere 100
to everything that the feminist sisterhood insists that you should do say and think if
you dissent you are punished for doing so with all of the worst kinds of misogynistic slurs
usually held at you by women who claim to be fighting against the hurling of misogynistic slurs
it's very very weird as such i am really very cynical about the anti-online misogyny movement
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anyway it is my experience of the hypocrisy of the anti-online misogyny feminist crowd that made me
really skeptical of the cultural narrative that insists that the internet is unsafe
from women and inherently geared to be hostile towards them because it's dominated by a cult
of misogynistic men who spend their lives on the internet harassing the female species now while
there are certainly men like that out there and trust me i've gone to war with them a few times
they are very much a niche not a norm in fact the norms of online harassment are quite different
to the feminist narrative see while much has been made of the online misogyny meal ticket according
to a lot of studies it's actually men not women who receive the most abuse online our good friends
at pee research have been on this since 2014. back then they identified six behaviors that
they believed constituted online harassment and surveyed a nationally representative sample of the
usa to see who copped what these six behaviors were offensive name-calling being purposefully
embarrassed stalking sexual harassment physical threats and sustained harassment
the study found that overall men are somewhat more likely than women to experience at least
one of the six elements of online harassment 44 to 37 respectively the same proved true when when pew
conducted the study again in 2017 more men overall than women had experienced online harassment
at the same 44 to 37 distinction and then in 2021 when the study was published again it had
an almost identical result 43 percent of men had experienced online harassment as opposed to 38
of women now obviously that is not the end of the story there are some nuances within that data that
i need to discuss we need to look at what types of online harassment men and women are prone to
and most pointedly who is doing the harassing so not surprisingly at all men across all three
iterations of the pew study tended to fall prey to being called offensive names purposefully
humiliated or physically threatened whereas women were more likely to have been sexually harassed
or stalked now that is about as startling as the sky is blue culturally men are often bullied by
attacks on their masculinity and status and women are often bullied by being sexually humiliated
this is how we work as a society it is as it's been like that for centuries in terms of specifics
and to use the 2021 study as an example 35 percent of men said they have been called an offensive
name versus 26 of women and 16 of men were physically threatened versus 11 percent of women
women on the other hand are more likely than men to report having been sexually harassed online
at 16 percent versus 5 percent or stalked at 13 to 9 other studies in other countries have found
similar results over the years in australia two studies conducted by norton in 2016 one of solely
men the other of solely women found 54 of response respondents in the men's study had experienced
some form of abuse or harassment online among men under 30 the reported incidence was 78 in the
women's study 47 percent of overall respondents had experienced online abuse with the rate at 76
for women under 30. and similarly to the pew studies norton also found that while
women were more likely of course to have been victims of sexual harassment and attacks on
their physical appearance men were more likely to be victims of abuse and insults trolling and
malicious gossip or rumors and in 2014 again right around the time these kinds of stats were emerging
uk think tank demos conducted a study of different public figures specifically both men and women to
see which type of celebrity garnered the most trolling on twitter demos did this by analyzing
two million tweets over a two-week period sent to a selection of the most prominent and widely
followed public figures on twitter these included celebrities politicians journalists and musicians
specifically chosen to ensure an equal number roughly one million tweets were aimed at each
gender it found two point five four percent of the tweets containing the at username of a male public
figure contained abuse compared to only 0.95 percent of the tweets received by prominent women
overall one in 20 of the tweets sent to male celebrities included abuse compared with one in
70 aimed at female celebrities journalism is the only category where women receive more abuse than
men with female journalists and tv news presenters receiving roughly three times as much abuse
as their male counterparts men were much more likely to troll public figures via social media
three quarters of the abuse received by prominent men and over 60 percent of abuse received
by women was tweeted by men most interestingly of all however was that the study found that
among journalists the one category in which women received more abusive tweets than men
about 38 of those abusive tweets to female journalists came from women now this is a
largest difference to the amount of abusive tweets male journalists receive from women which is 28
so contrary to what your average feminist commentator journalist says about the internet
being an unsafe space for women thanks to armies of men who do nothing but troll women all day
it would seem that at least according to demos nearly two-fifths of abusive tweets directed
at women journalists are in fact from other women yet more proof the sisterhood does not
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whenever it's pointed out that men overall receive more abuse online than women at least according to
these three sources feminists will insist that it is still just so much harder for women online
because women receive gendered online abuse it's all about them being women and picks on them for
for their appearance and and sexualizes them meaning that therefore their opinion is worthless
because they're a woman and that therefore women still have a much much much harder time of it
online than men okay first of all while receiving sexually harassing comments online isn't much fun
trust me i know neither are threats of violence which men disproportionately receive and second
of all in the age of shut up you straight white men when men are told to be silent because of
their alleged unearned male privilege and earned to continually self-flagellate for their toxic
masculinity while being called man-babies if they object and defend themselves i don't really think
women have the monopoly on gendered abuse in which case considering all of the above why is it that
the online harassment of women gets so much more attention than the online harassment of men after
all they are just mean words on a screen nobody is forcing you to read them i mean social media 101
don't read the comments well handily both the pew research and the norton studies indicated why this
may be the case while women overall do receive less online abuse than men women quite literally
just get more upset about it lots of gross direct messages calling me a [ __ ] and other gendered
gross words go away what why so sorry some people just hate smart women keep doing what you do
who cares for example in the 2021 pew study 61 of women said that online harassment is a
major problem while only 48 of men agree also women who have been harassed online are more
than twice as likely as men to say they were extremely or very upset by their most recent
encounter also 61 percent of men who have been harassed online say they were not at all
or a little upset by their most recent incident while 36 of women said the same the 2017 and
2014 pew studies revealed similar results if you want to go through them the links are in
the video description the norton studies found the same only 53 percent of men of all ages said
online harassment was a serious problem compared with 70 of women now i don't know exactly why
there is this difference in reaction between men and women when it comes to online harassment
maybe it's incontestable proof of that old gender stereotype that women are more emotional than men
maybe it's an example of the pressure men face to bottle up their feelings i mean for all we know
men could be just as if not more upset than women by online harassment but feel cultural pressure
not to react to it publicly i don't know but either way it is a very interesting
things thing to note and adds a large dose of context to the discussion of online harassment
context that feminists tend to leave out now look i'm not trying to take away from
the negative experiences that women have online i've had some very negative experiences online
as a woman in rather large-scale ways and it is really not fun i totally understand
all i'm trying to do is highlight that online online harassment is a problem for both men and
women but as per usual feminists have hijacked the issue for their own gratification and created a
narrative that tells only half the story like they do with everything from the gender wage gap to dv
to online harassment to real world physical abuse they have to have everything their way
even if it's not quite factually accurate so what is the solution to online harassment well
some politicians in australia would like to introduce id laws to be able to use social
media the thinking being of course that if you remove anonymity people are less likely to be
vile online i disagree from my experience supply a surprisingly large number of people are perfectly
happy to post the most horrific things online under their own names i mean the stuff i have seen
from real people accounts is often worse than the stuff from anonymous accounts they just don't care
mean people gonna be mean anonymously or not all removing anonymity on social media will
do is clog up the courts with defamation cases and subject the police to relentless calls to do
something even when the behavior doesn't actually break any harassment laws although it might be
particularly unpleasant as such the solution is taking it upon yourself to fully curate your own
online experience if you don't like something some account is saying to you block them don't
read comment sections if you know that you are likely to be upset if you see something unpleasant
do not have open dms do not read spam messages they are usually from trolls report comments if
they upset you and you think that they qualify as harassment or abuse it is all very easy to do
don't have social media apps on your smartphone and if you do turn off all notifications i don't
have the twitter app on my smartphone and it is the best thing ever and if all else fails do what
this great philosopher suggests how the bleep is cyber bullying real hahaha pal just walk away from
the screen like buddy close your eyes hahaha blunt but helpful aside from anything else if you are
really upset by comments you see on the internet ask yourself this why do you care so much what
random people say about you online like who really cares what some rando's mean tweet to you says why
are you endowing them with any kind of power by negatively reacting to their mean tweet or post
they shouldn't matter to you that much honestly they're randos on the internet for the record i
really like nice randos on the internet you guys are all great it's only the mean abusive trolls
that i'm talking about but look what do you all think of online harassment let me know in the
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